Hi Mikulas,
Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jun 2016, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > while we're at it, this bug report about -only-proxies recently came
> > in, too, at https://bugs.debian.org/827186. Citing the relevants parts
> > of the mail with most details:
>
> It is not a bug, it is a feature.
As mentioned below, I'm aware of that intention. I though still think
that there is a bug in it:
> The "only proxies" option is intended to be used when Links is used with
> tor.
[...]
> > According to the changelog it's a feature since 2.9:
> >
> > An option to fake Firefox in the HTTP header. It modifies User-Agent and
> > several other options to be more Firefox-like. This option is also
> > automatically turned on when "Connect only via proxies or Socks (useful
> > for tor)" is selected. It makes it safer to use Links with tor.
> >
> > But it seems that the name of the "-only-proxies" feature is confusing
> > people as they don't expect that the User-Agent string is modified by
> > it and not overridable anymore afterwards. Maybe it's currently a
> > little bit too overzealous?
Given your confirmation that the behaviour itself is intended, I think
the "-only-proxies" option is definitely misnamed as it does not have
"tor" in its name anywhere and its current name suggests something
different than it does..
Regards, Axel
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